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[[preprinted]] Arkansas Valley Bank,
(Incorporated.)
Capital Stock, $50,000.[[preprinted]]
[[preprinted on right side]] G.W. Sutton, President.
Josie L. Hicks, Vice President.
Robt. Chasteen, Cashier.
P.O. Bucher, Ass't. Cash'r.[[preprinted]]

[[handwritten note diagonally]] notes[[?]] [[underlined]]jee 20 [[underlined]]
copes heel[[?]] Sanh lot[[?]] [[underlined]]x___x[[underlined]][[handwritten note diagonally]]

Pawnee, Okla.,  Dec. [[cross through]]11[[cross through]] 7 1898.
Miss Alice C. Fletcher,
My Friend,
your letter the 3rd has peached eue[[?]]- I sent back your questions and tried my best to answer plainly so you would not be botherred about wanting to ask more questions. About the lodge I have had several of the skee-dees in here and I can not get the real or rather I can not get to the bottom of the legend - ceremony - that is I can not get the whole thing. I [[underlined]]must[[underlined]] have [[underlined]] time. [[underlined]]
As it is I can not do very much for I have to catch
[[line on left side of page with word Crhis on it from 'I have had several' till the end]]